Vanavond spelen Oostenrijk en Argentinië hun tweede wedstrijd in de poulefase van het WK voetbal. Onder de Oostenrijkse verdedigers is ruzie ontstaan over wie tijdens de wedstrijd de noppen van Messi in zijn been mag hebben.
In de eerste wedstrijd liet Messi al blijken heel gewillig te zijn als het gaat om het uitdelen van een lelijke charge. De Argentijnse sterspeler koos de Algerijnse verdediger Aïssa Mandi uit om zijn visitekaartje aan af te geven. Vanavond zal het de beurt zijn aan Phillip Lienhart, of misschien toch oude bekende David Alaba.
Ook verdediger Kevin Danso hoopt op een voetafdruk van de grote meester. “Messi is een speler waar je in je leven misschien maar één keer tegen voetbalt. Vanavond wordt hopelijk een avond met een horrorblessure die ik nooit meer zal vergeten.”
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Mobility can’t be tracked on a leaderboard, but it can help you feel better and make daily tasks easier
Fitness is often measured through numbers: how much weight a person can lift, or how fast or far they can run. But one important metric is harder to quantify: mobility.
Mobility gets overlooked, because the relevant exercises do not “have the instant visual appeal of traditional workouts”, says Tyler McDonald, certified personal trainer and senior brand manager for the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
90/90 hip switches: Sit on the floor with the front leg bent at a 90-degree angle (thigh out in front of you and calf perpendicular to you) and the back leg bent at a 90-degree angle (thigh out to the side, calf roughly parallel to you). Slowly rotate your knees to the opposite side without lifting your feet off the floor. “This is fantastic for opening tight hips,” McDonald says.
Cat-cow stretch. With your hands and knees on the ground, arch your back towards the ceiling, dropping your head between your arms. Then, slowly drop your back and raise your head and glutes towards the ceiling. This helps with spine mobility.
World’s greatest stretch. Yes, this stretch has quite the name, but for good reason. Start in a plank. Bring the right leg forward into a low lunge position. Stretch the right arm overhead towards the ceiling, twisting the upper body. Then, bring the right hand behind the head and attempt to touch the ground with the right elbow. “It hits your hips, hamstrings and upper back all at once, making it incredibly efficient,” says McDonald.
Continue reading...The solutions to today’s puzzles – and the winner of the Anguish Languish contest
Earlier today I set these three puzzles about deception. Here they are again with solutions.
1. Super syllabus
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Argentina: E.Martínez; Molina, Romero, Lisandro Martínez, Medina; De Paul, Mac Allister, Fernández, Almada; Messi, Lautaro Martínez.
Subs: Musso, Senesi, Tagliafico, Montiel, Paredes, Barco, Álvarez, Lo Celso, Rulli, Palacios, González, Simeone, Paz, Otamendi, Lopez.
Continue reading...José Luis Ábalos found to have taken bribes on Covid-era public contracts in damaging blow to Pedro Sánchez
Spain’s supreme court has jailed the former transport minister José Luis Ábalos for 24 years for taking bribes on public contracts for sanitary equipment such as face masks during the Covid pandemic.
Ábalos’s aide, Koldo García, was jailed for 19 years in a trial that is one of several scandals to have enveloped the government of Pedro Sánchez over recent months.
Continue reading...Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music business
The famed US music industry executive and record producer Clive Davis has died aged 94, his family has confirmed.
He had recently been hospitalised with respiratory problems and was recovering at home. He had also been diagnosed with neurological condition Bell’s palsy in 2021.
Continue reading...PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate
Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most perplex the political analysts of the future.
They will ponder a man who won a landslide victory in July 2024 only to be pushed out less than two years later, having started no illegal wars, having triggered no grave economic crises, having been accused of no scandalous act of corruption.
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Architect and urban & computational designer Abhinav Bhardwaj made this great set of slides comparing urban design in the US and Europe, peppered with pithy observations like:



(thx, meg)
Tags: Abhinav Bhardwaj · architecture · cities · design · urban planning

Obey Giant partnered with Unite in Advance on Art for Freedom, a multi-piece art series interpreting three First Amendment freedoms, speech, press, and assembly, and their role in upholding our democracy.
As America recognizes its 250th anniversary, the series uses bold imagery and public participation to give people a moment to connect these freedoms to their own experience, and spark conversation and civic engagement around the freedoms that allow communities to exercise their rights. The art is now available to download at artforfreedom.org and we invite you to join us in posting from June 22 through July 20.
These three original works each honor a First Amendment freedom. Download a poster, share across your channels, and add your voice.



Created in recognition of America’s 250th anniversary, this series examines the enduring significance of the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly in a democratic society, drawing on both national symbols and contemporary civic themes to highlight the people who exercise these rights every day, and at a moment when many Americans feel divided from one another and disconnected from public institutions, the series uses art as a unifying force, inviting audiences to consider how these freedoms connect us, how they shape our shared future, and why each generation has a responsibility to uphold them.
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DE BILT (ANP) - Vanaf woensdag 12.00 uur geldt in het midden en zuiden van Nederland de waarschuwing code oranje vanwege extreme hitte, meldt het KNMI. De waarschuwing geldt voorlopig voor meerdere dagen. In die periode worden dagelijks temperaturen boven de 34 graden verwacht.
Het is de twaalfde keer dit jaar dat het KNMI waarschuwing code oranje heeft afgegeven. Dat is een record. In 2010 werd elf keer code oranje afgegeven.
Wij kennen minister Boekholt-O'Sullivan (D66) van Volkshuisvesting hier inmiddels van het verzinnen van een raar verhaal over douchemuntjes, erover liegen dat ze het ooit gehad heeft over die douchemuntjes, en van op camera HELEMAAL NIKS zeggen als haar een normale vraag wordt gesteld. Maar klokkenluider Victor van Wulfen, die kent minister Boekholt-O'Sullivan al veeeeeel langer. Zij was namelijk de baas op vliegbasis Eindhoven toen Van Wulfen met nep-psychologische rapporten werd weggepest omdat hij te kritisch was. In bananenrepubliek Nederland werd Boekholt-O'Sullivan vervolgend opgevolgd door Harold Boekholt, wat niet haar broer is maar haar echtgenoot. Van Wulfen strijdt nog steeds voor eerherstel en wil onder meer inzicht in de 1700 (!) mails die Boekholt over hem verzameld zou hebben. Vandaag vraagt DNA-Kamerlid Tamara ten Hove aan minister Yesilgöz om antwoord op allemaal hele logische vragen (zie video hierboven), maar zij kan die allemaal niet geven, naar eigen zeggen omdat de zaak onder de rechter ligt (zie video hieronder). JA MAAR WIE ZIJN SCHULD IS DAT YESILGÖZ, VRAAG DAT EENS AAN JE COLLEGA OP VOLKSHUISVESTING.
Doet voor de fijnproevers (wijzelf, red.) een beetje denken aan toen minister Eppo Bruins (echt, nog nooit paste iemands voornaam zo goed bij zijn totale gebrek aan daadkracht) helemaal niks wist over de corruptie van zijn collega-minister Klever bij Ongehoord Nederland! Klever werd uiteindelijk gered door de val van het kabinet, misschien heeft Boekholt-O'Sullivan wel net zo veel geluk (en wij ook).

Board members of a small township in Michigan agreed to “fight to our very last breath” against an AI data center planned in their community. America’s nuclear scientists and the University of Michigan want to build a massive data center in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. If built, the data center will, among other things, run simulations to help America build nuclear weapons.
The residents of Ypsilanti Township overwhelmingly oppose the construction of the data center and voiced their opposition to the computer warehouse during a public board meeting on June 16. In a show of support that’s often rare from local leaders in communities with data centers, Ypsilanti Township’s board vowed to fight UofM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is partnering with the university, with everything they had.
Throughout most of the three hour board meeting, a photograph from a data center groundbreaking in nearby Saline Township was projected onto a wall behind the board. The photo showed a grinning Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer standing in line with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk. It was taken at the June 1 groundbreaking of an Oracle and OpenAI data center in nearby Saline Township, one of several Stargate projects. Saline Township is a community of only 2,300 people and the fight against the data center was so contentious that the Township treasurer resigned in tears during a public meeting in May.
During the groundbreaking, a videographer caught Whitmer talking with Magouyrk. In the video Whitmer appeared to tell the billionaire, “We’re used to people saying no, and doing it anyway.” Whitmer’s office has officially denied she said that, but many of the residents of Michigan—including the people of Ypsilanti Township—believe she did.
Governor Whitmer had a hot mic moment at the Saline Data Center groundbreaking, where she tells Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, “We’re used to people saying f*ck no, and doing it anyway.” I’m old enough to remember when she doxxed Marshall constituents who opposed her BlueOval project. pic.twitter.com/PRFnjGY5l9
— Heather Dow (@PatriotPostGirl) June 8, 2026
Cilla Cresswell shot the video of Whitmer and was present at the Ypsilanti Township board meeting on Tuesday. “On June 1 I was standing just to the left, right there,” Creswell said, referring to the photo that loomed behind the board during the meeting. “I was there. I recorded that clip [… ] I was right there. And they want to say it’s fake, but I just want to let you guys know it’s real. You can play it on my camera.”
Members of the board and the community referenced the photograph often during the meeting. “You have people in that photograph worth billions of dollars. Not just millions, we’re talking trillions. Soon to be trillionaires. Yet this state, in its zeal to become the data capital of the country, has extended unprecedented tax credits to the richest corporations in the world,” Douglas Winters, a lawyer representing Ypsilanti Township, said in the meeting.
“Having to stare at this picture during this meeting has my blood boiling,” said Ypsi resident Laura Witowski. “I did not realize how emotional I would be. The waste of space. The complete lack of regard for humans and animals and for what?”
During the hours of community comments, residents stepped forward to voice complaints that have now become common about data centers in America. The people of Ypsilanti Township worried about the rising cost of electricity, how much water the building will use, and how noisy the data center would be once finished.
They also called on the Township board to do everything in their power to stop it from even being built. “Put yourselves on the line. Those people will listen to you better than they will listen to us. Please put yourselves, your jobs, and your comfort on the line to stop this for us,” Ypsi resident Jane Wolf said. “Get creative. Tear up the road. Block the road. Break the law. Do whatever you need to do for us. You will be remembered better in history for the job that you did if you can get creative and really put yourselves out there.”
Jill Warren, the wife of a Methodist pastor, suggested residents brush up on the OSS’ Simple Sabotage Field Manual. “Simply slow things down bureaucratically," she said. “Make sure we block where we can. Use very slow agendas and response times and do, within your power, the work that you are entitled to do. For those who aren’t familiar with it, please look up the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and use it in your own lives of action as well [...] they may not care about us, but we care about us and we’re here and we’ll continue to be here and support the work that you’re doing on our behalf.”
Alyssa, an Ypsilanti resident, cited long passages from John Hershey’s Hiroshima—a 1946 book that focused on the victims of the first atomic bombing. “We don’t need simulations to know what a nuclear strike looks like,” she said. “We have pictures, videos, and audio of what happens. We know what it does to bodies. We know what it does to children and what it does to life.”
Board supervisor Brend Stumbo vowed to fight. “This is going to harm our community in our future. We will fight to our very last breath, but we need help. And we need it from the people who have the power to stop things,” she said.
Stumbo explained that, early on, she and other members of the board were ignorant about data centers and that she was grateful to the Township’s residents for informing her. “Now we know and we’re thankful for the residents and non-residents that came to our meetings early and told us, ‘don’t trust UofM,’” she said. “We do not love nor do we appreciate what the board or regents is doing to our community. It needs to stop. And everyone that showed up here today, we greatly appreciate it and we will keep going, like everyone has said, by doing it together […] I will stand with you. I will fight with you. And I know this entire board and our Township attorney will as well. So let’s keep doing it together.”
The Township has, so far, made good on its word and it’s been creative in its opposition. In April, the board voted to institute a 365 day moratorium on supplying water to data centers so it could conduct a scientific study into how hyper scale data centers might affect the community water supply. In response, UofM threatened to sue and claimed that withholding water from an AI data center meant to power nuclear weapons research was unlawful discrimination.